June Hatch-A-Long!!!

There were originally 12 eggs under Cookies (my broody hen) and she cracked a few and now she is down to 6. I poked a hole on the airsack side on all of them, 2 were dead, and 3 were about to explode. On the weak chick egg, when I poked a hole, I saw the beak poking through the airsack!! I saw it breathing too!! Life!! Finally!! I’ll post a pic of the egg later!! :D
 
There were originally 12 eggs under Cookies (my broody hen) and she cracked a few and now she is down to 6. I poked a hole on the airsack side on all of them, 2 were dead, and 3 were about to explode. On the weak chick egg, when I poked a hole, I saw the beak poking through the airsack!! I saw it breathing too!! Life!! Finally!! I’ll post a pic of the egg later!! :D
Awesome.. I ended up with 7 (4 males 3 females) which to me is an excellant hatch rate! I did check the other 3 eggs and they were all dead in the shell, but overall I'm pleased!!
 
Chicks that have hatched so far. Still a lot more to go. I put some crumbles on the paper towel and they are laying on them. Sometimes they are on the new clean terry cloth. They have to rest. It's a hard ordeal hatching.
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Well we 2 babies so far. 5 pips as of this morning.
I'm pretty sure chicks don't have to eat till they're 72 hours old?
So Cookies ended up crushing the egg and killed the chick last night. I was really looking forward to it hatching. :he:hit:barnie:hit
 
Now my second batch of eggs are hatching. Most hatched last night. I fell asleep and when I went out this morning the hatcher was full of peeps. There are a few eggs still hatching. I'll have to go out and get a picture,
 

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